Evaluation of Mechanical Properties and Wear Characterization of Polymer Composites under Varying Temperature Conditions: A Review

Abstract: Due to several favorable properties in structural applications composites nowadays forms familiar group while selecting the type of materials recommended for particular applications. In addition to this, the glass fibre reinforced epoxy composites, like any other fibre reinforced polymer composites, offer many advantages over the conventional structural materials. These materials have good corrosion resistance, good toughness and good insulation property. These properties have encouraged their use in several Civil Engineering applications, Aerospace Engineering, Transport and Marine Engineering. The performance of the composites can further be improved by adding   fillers to them. The work aims at using E-waste Rubber as a filler material. The present work includes the processing, mechanical characterization and study of the wear behaviour of a series of such Rubber filled glass-epoxy composites. The work further assesses the wear behaviour of the prepared specimens upon thermal aging.